jsomers

6,055 karmajoined February 24, 2007On HN

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The paper computer jsomers.net
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Can you reverse engineer our neural network?blog.janestreet.com
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A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft (2023)newyorker.com
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I design with Claude more than Figma now blog.janestreet.com
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A coder considers the waning days of the craft (2023)newyorker.com
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The Case That A.I. Is Thinking newyorker.com
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The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction jsomers.net
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Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
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An experiment that turned back biological time nehalslearnings.substack.com
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Vivarium: The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction]jsomers.net
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I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any doc's keystrokes (2014)features.jsomers.net
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A Revolution in How Robots Learn newyorker.com
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The Coming Software Apocalypse (2017)theatlantic.com
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The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis jsomers.net
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More people should write (2012)jsomers.net
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A coder considers the waning days of the craft newyorker.com
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A poet’s guide to product management – Jane Street podcast signalsandthreads.com
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Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off due to software bug adn.com
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“Expect tests” make test-writing feel like a REPL session blog.janestreet.com
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An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)robinsloan.com
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A Journey to the Center of Our Cells newyorker.com
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Snow Science Against the Avalanche (2020)newyorker.com
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The quest to build a general-purpose thought decoder newyorker.com
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Should we cool it with the historical present?jsomers.net
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Should we cool it with the historical present?jsomers.net
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The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer newyorker.com
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The Plague Year newyorker.com
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A Great Prize, a Long-Suffering Inventor and the First Accurate Clock (1956)google.com
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Crowdsourcing dynamic illustrations for a new astronomy book observablehq.com
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I should have loved biology jsomers.net
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